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In Martyr’s Park, a spread of grass, shrubs and a few trees are all that remain to memorialize the lynching of three slaves for whom the park is named. The city plans to change this with the new Memorial for Victims of Racial Violence that will be placed in the park.

The City of Dallas’ Office of Arts and Culture has put out a call for artwork to memorialize victims of lynching in... | Read More

Dallas-based artist and musician Jake Nice is a veteran of the North Texas theater scene. As a director, he’s worked with large ensembles to produce funny, sprawling plays about the randomness of life; and he’s collaborated with playwrights on one-man shows. Nice has performed on stage, he’s worked as a sound designer and he’s crafted original music for several... | Read More

A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I’m a journalist on NPR’s science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist.

I draw in between tasks. I sketch at the coffee shop before work. And I like challenging myself to complete a zine — a little magazine — on my 20-minute bus commute.

I do these things... | Read More

The headline out of this morning’s Oscar nominations could have been newness. There was the arrival of Netflix’s two best picture contenders (Marriage Story with six nominations and The Irishman with 10). There was the huge showing for Bong Joon-ho’s remarkable Parasite (six nominations) out of South Korea, the extraordinarily rare foreign-language film to make the... | Read More